Brief Life History of Bertha E M
When Bertha E M Nolte was born on 29 October 1899, in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, United States, her father, William Fredrick Nolte, was 27 and her mother, Amelia C. L. Kirkhoff, was 23. She married Charles H Riess on 2 December 1939, in Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States. She lived in Warren, Marion, Missouri, United States in 1930 and Connersville, Fayette, Indiana, United States in 1940. She died on 8 January 1957, in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Washington Park East Cemetery, Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, United States.
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- Bertha Riess, "United States Census, 1940"
- Bertha E M Nolte, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Bertha E M Riess, "Find A Grave Index"
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1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1906 · Gary, Indiana, Is Founded
The town of Gary, Indiana, was founded by the United States Steel Corporation in 1906. The Gary Works steel mill was the largest integrated mill in North America. The city of Gary was named after Elbert Henry Gary who was the founding chairman of the United States Steel Corporation and American lawyer and county judge. Gary partnered with J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and Charles M. Schwab to found the United States Steel Corporation.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Erwin, Heinz, Erna, Frieda, Hans, Horst, Johann, Juergen, Ewald, Guenter, Heinrich.
German (also Nölte) and Dutch: from a short form of any of various ancient Germanic personal names composed of the first element ending with -n + wald ‘rule’, for example Arnold and Reinwald .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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